Fiction - Family Life - General

A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother's secret life in an emotional and immersive novel by Zhang Ling, the bestselling author of A Single Swallow.There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix...

"Bursting with humor, banter, and cringeworthy first dates, Sonali Dev's The Vibrant Years is a joyful and fun read, but it's also very much a timely tale about a group of underestimated women demanding respect and embracing their most authentic selves." --Mindy KalingLiving on...

A daughter discovers the dramatic history that shaped her mother's secret life in an emotional and immersive novel by Zhang Ling, the bestselling author of A Single Swallow.There was rarely a time when Phoenix Yuan-Whyller's mother, Rain, didn't live with her. Even when Phoenix...

A bighearted novel about motherhood, friendship, moving on, and love of all kinds.Ever since Beth Bailey was a girl, she's been in love with her best friend's older brother, Mark. She's continued to hold out hope that maybe, someday, he'll love her back. But...

A sweeping, emotional tale of hope and perseverance, Swan Light weaves together the stories of two people separated by a century but connected by family, purpose, and one extraordinary lighthouse.1913. Eighty-three-year-old Silvestre Swan has dedicated his life to the care of his Newfoundland lighthouse....

Unlikely road trip companions form an unexpected bond in an uplifting novel about the past--lost and found--by the New York Times and #1 Amazon Charts bestselling author.Lewis Madigan is young, gay, out of work, and getting antsy when he's roped into providing end-of-life care...

A thrilling story of wealth, power and the true cost of 'having it all'. Because sometimes the price of the perfect life...is death.In cosmopolitan Johannesburg, three high-flying couples form the core of the elite Khula Society: part investment group, part social club, with meetings...

Silence tore them apart. Can the truth bring them back together?"Marvellous" --Lesley Pearse"A hauntingly beautiful novel" --Imogen Clark"Gripping, heart rending and extremely satisfying" --Katie FfordeIn 1960s Glasgow, anti-nuclear activists Judith and Jimmy fall in love. But their future hopes are dashed when their protestors'...

In this dark and ethereal debut novel, a young woman tries to make sense of strange artifacts and unsettling memories in an effort to find her mother--missing since being accused of murder When brutish miner Hugo Mitchum is found murdered on the frozen shore...

This wry and visceral debut novel follows a young Turkish-American woman who, rather than grieving her father's untimely death, seeks treatment for a stubborn headache and grows obsessed with a centuries-old theory of medicine. "[A] humane and refreshingly astringent novel." --Lauren LeBlanc, The New...

Everything good in Joe Magellan's life--family, teaching career, sanity--has been undermined by his baffling compulsion: breaking the world record for flagpole-sitting. Through the years Joe has made seven attempts at the record, his best effort a measly eleven days. Oranges begins on January 20,...

A propulsive, kaleidoscopic novel about a fractured family and the persistence of hope. One night, seventeen-year-old Wolf steals his mother's car and drives six hundred kilometers in search of his sister, who left home ten years ago. Unlicensed and on edge, he veers onto...

Back in print, with a new introduction, the memorable debut by the author of The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee The grave we dug for my brother Little remained empty even after we filled it back in. And nobody was going to admit it. So...

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER BY THE AUTHOR OF TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW, AND TOMORROW NOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING LUCY HALE & KUNNAL NAYAR "A fun, page-turning delight." --Minneapolis Star-Tribune "Funny, tender, and moving, The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry reminds us...

"Smith's latest is as delicious as a slice of key lime pie - and gone just as fast." ―People "It's very different and it's very special and it's very good! I loved it." --​Dolly Parton A driving force in literature, Lee Smith returns with...

"A GUT PUNCH OF A NOVEL--lyrical, mordantly funny, and wrenching." --Kelly Link, author of Get in Trouble The searing and unforgettable story of one decision that irrevocably changes the course of a young man's life. In the early 1970s, in Stovall, Texas, seventeen-year-old Earl--a...

A father and his estranged daughter reconnect to try to understand a decades-old trauma in this haunting novel, part ghost story, part lyrical exploration of family, aging, and how we remember the past.At age 11, Helen disappeared in the wilderness of Mount Rainier National...

Finalist for the California Book AwardsLonglisted for the Dublin Literary PrizeLonglisted for the Joyce Carol Oates PrizeA New York Times Book Review Editors' ChoiceAn Amazon Editors' PickPeople, A Best Book of the Year For readers of Less and The Wangs Vs. The World, a...

Devil Moon Over Philadelphia - A true story about this author's family, beginning in Scotland in 1778, their flight from religious oppression to Ireland, in search of a better life, survival from disease and famine, their immigration to America and their move to Philadelphia,...

Devil Moon Over Philadelphia - A true story about this author's family, beginning in Scotland in 1778, their flight from religious oppression to Ireland, in search of a better life, survival from disease and famine, their immigration to America and their move to Philadelphia,...

Shortlisted for the 2023 International Booker Prize A profound novel about motherhood, friendship, and the power of community from "one of the leading lights in contemporary Latin American literature" (Valeria Luiselli, author of Lost Children Archive). Alina and Laura are independent and career-driven women...

Days with GrampsBy: Susan and Beth McMahonDays with Gramps is the story of a family supporting one another through the diagnosis, and progression of Gramps' Alzheimer's Disease. Showing the reality behind family adjustments and then experiencing loss, authors Susan and Elizabeth McMahon provide a...

Perfect for fans of Helene Tursten and Caroline B. Cooney, a grieving grandmother turns to murder in Rebecca Keller's taut debut mystery that explores the bonds of family and the grudges we refuse to let go. When retired nurse Frannie Greene moves into a...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER. Sixteen-year-old Sarah Kunitz lives in a posh, suburban world of 1970 Boston. From the outside, her parents' lifestyle appears enviable - a world defined by cocktail parties, expensive cars, and live-in maids to care for their children - but inside their five-bedroom...

In this intense, multilayered domestic drama, two families become entangled in a web of lies, secrets, and betrayal that results in an act of violence so shocking their love may not survive.On the outside, Lily Isley's life seems perfect: a wealthy husband, a ritzy...

In this collection's richly imagined title story, our brutal and resourceful protagonist is determined to protect her family from a murderous, shark-ridden world--at any cost. Elsewhere, an old woman uncovers a sinister plot while looking after a friend's plants ("Orchids"), and a girl in...

An unforgettable novel about a Greek American family and its enigmatic patriarch from a significant new voice in contemporary literature. "Hilarious yet rich...This debut by Annie Liontas will touch you" (The New York Times). Stavros Stavros Mavrakis, Greek immigrant and proud owner of the...

Coming soon The Lost Letters of William Woolf by Helen Cullen will be available Oct 02, 2018.Author: Helen CullenISBN-10: 1432858394ISBN-13: 9781432858391Publisher: Thorndike Press Large PrintLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/05/2019Format: Library BindingWeight: 1.25lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.70w x 1.00dLarge Print

Fans of Maria Semple's Where'd You Go Bernadette and and Celeste Ng's Everything I Never Told You will delight in Annie Hartnett's debut, Rabbit Cake, a darkly comic novel about a young girl named Elvis trying to figure out her place in a world...

In this New York Times bestselling psychological thriller, "a gripping morality tale that raises questions about race, conscience, and the responsibilities of parenthood" (People), a happily married man makes a split-second decision that sends his life into a devastating tailspin. Life can change in...

A luminous, tenderly rendered novel of a woman fighting for her family's survival in the early years of the Dust Bowl; from the acclaimed and award-winning Rae Meadows.Annie Bell can't escape the dust. It's in her hair, covering the windowsills, coating the animals in...

'Grab a box of tissues because this beautiful story will make you cry' Amazon reviewer, 5 starsWhen Rachel and Aidan fell in love, they thought it was forever.She was a brilliant, high-flying scientist. He was her loving and supportive husband.Now she's gone, and Aidan...

An intense debut novel that's "compulsively readable and stunningly written," (Jodi Picoult), Lies You Wanted to Hear is hard-hitting story about a family torn apart from the inside out, and what happens when the mistakes you make cost more than anyone would expect.Alone in...

A bright June day. A split-second distraction. A family forever changed. Life is good for Maura Corrigan. Married to her college sweetheart, Pete, raising three young kids with her parents nearby in her peaceful Chicago suburb, her world is secure. Then one day, in...

NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of Three Junes comes a tender, riveting book of two sisters and their complicated relationship. Louisa Jardine is the older one, the conscientious student, precise and careful: the one who yearns for a good...

Coming soon Bringing Emma Home by Stella MacLean will be available May 8, 2018.Author: Stella MacLeanISBN-10: 1335449248ISBN-13: 9781335449245Publisher: Harlequin Special ReleasesLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/08/2018Pages: 384Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.40lbsSize: 6.50h x 4.20w x 1.00d

Eighteen-year-old Dakota Buchannan is determined not to be the messed-up, orphaned teenager with an over the top imagination the media describes her as. After her father's accidental death at Jennings oil refinery, she finds out that she has a much older half-brother and moves...

An Amazon.ca Best Book of 2013Romain was born with a silver spoon in his mouth. At 18, he leaves his family for a home in the forest, learning to live off the land rather than his family's wealth. l na flees a house of...

New from National Book Award-winner Gloria Whelan, stories that explore the unexpected and sometimes amazing ways we live together. We all have to live together, whether we do it with enthusiasm or grace, reluctance or despair. In this skillfully drawn collection, National Book award-winning...

"Tuck packs a small universe and decades of emotional history into each story."--Stephan Lee, Entertainment Weekly Lily Tuck's The House at Belle Fontaine brings together ten of the award-winning author's most exquisitely-wrought and captivating stories. These intimate tales traverse time and continents, revealing apprehensions,...

Includes reading group guide with discussion questions.Author: Marie BostwickISBN-10: 1496709233ISBN-13: 9781496709233Publisher: Kensington Publishing CorporationLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/27/2018Pages: 336Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 8.20h x 5.40w x 1.00d

Tom Lowe's identity and his pride are invested in the work he does with his back and his hands. He designed and built his family's dream home, working extra hours to pay off the adjustable rate mortgage he took on the property, convinced he...

Winner of the 2023 Independent Press Award for Literary FictionWinner of the 2023 IAN Book of the Year Awards for Outstanding Multicultural FictionWinner of the 2023 IPPY Awards Bronze Medal for Best Regional Ebook (Fiction)Distinguished Favorite in the 2023 NYC Big Book Award for...

In the previous book in the series, A DIFFERENT VIEW, Dot speculates to her friend Sally that when Oliver, in his wilder, footloose days, was out in the Mediterranean, he had an affair that turned sour on him, and that his famous round-the-world trip...

NEW YORK TIMES EDITORS' CHOICE - The masterly debut novel from "an exquisitely astute writer" (The Boston Globe), about growing up in--and out of--the suffocating constraints of small-town America. LONGLISTED FOR THE PEN/JEAN STEIN BOOK AWARD - "Compact and beautiful . . . This...

Four modern families aboard a passenger train hurtle into the night. One hundred and seventy years earlier their forebearers make their way in a young nation built on grand promises. Each family follows their own path, only to find that their destinies are linked...

A lucid, genre-defying novel that explores the surreality of pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood in a country in crisis A novelist attempts to write a book about Mary Shelley, author of Frankenstein, a mother and artist whose harrowing pregnancies reveal the cost of human reproduction....

From Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Ford: the final novel in the world of Frank Bascombe, one of the most indelible characters in American literature Over the course of four celebrated works of fiction and almost forty years, Richard Ford has crafted an ambitious, incisive,...

doxxing (noun): to search for and publish private information about someone on the internet, typically with malicious intent. to ruin someone's life. Clearwater is a town that has forgotten that every great teacher is first a great liar. All of that changes one day...

Is love essential to a happy marriage? Is marriage essential to a satisfying life? Night and Day, Virginia Woolf's second published novel, follows four Londoners-Katharine Hillbery, Mary Datchet, Ralph Denham, and William Rodney-through a period of their intertwined lives as they grapple with questions...